-----Original Message----- From: Brian Walls <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [PATTERSON-L] James and Robert Patterson of Bedford Co., TN >Joe, > >Thank you very much for your help. With your message, I must ask if Nancy >in the census was the widow of Andrew at the time of the 1820 census? Also, >if Robert had a known brother James, isn't the James listed in the message a >prime candidate for that brother? If I had to guess where Syntha/Saleatha >Patterson fits, it would be with the James Patterson family because the >firstborn son of John Little and Syntha was named James M. Little. He was >born 1726 in Davidson Co., TN. But their second son was named Andrew L. >Little, b c1829, so I could not rule him out either. > >Do you have this stirp of the family back from Robert? If I link to James >or Andrew, the ancestors of this Robert Patterson are likely ancestors of my >Syntha Patterson. > >Thanks again for your help. > >Brian Walls >Columbia, Maryland > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Joe Patterson <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 5:21 PM >Subject: Re: [PATTERSON-L] James and Robert Patterson of Bedford Co., TN > > >>ROBERT PATTERSON was born Abt. 1768 in Lancaster County, PA,(son of >>Samuel Patterson and Martha Ramsey) and died January 30, 1854 in Chapel >>Hill, Marshall (Old Bedford) County, TN. He married ELIZABETH FERRIER >>December 16, 1793 in Mecklenburg County, NC, daughter of THOMAS FERRIER. >> >>Notes for ROBERT PATTERSON: >>Robert and Elizabeth are buried in the Patterson-Swanson Cemetery (now >>known as the Swanson Cemetery) located on Morningside Drive in Chapel >>Hill, TN. >> >>Their markers have long ago been destroyed but a fairly recent marker >>says: >> >> PATTERSON >>Robert Elizabeth >>1768 - 1854 1772 - 1816 >> >>Cemetery tombstone inscriptions made in 1968 and published in a book >>entitled Cemeteries in Marshall County list Robert Patterson - Died: >>Jan 30 1854, age 86 and Elizabeth Patterson died Mar 31, 1816, age 44. >> >> >> >>Children of ROBERT PATTERSON and ELIZABETH FERRIER are: >> i. ELIZABETH PATTERSON, m. MISTER RHODES. >> ii. FITZ PATTERSON. >> iii. HARRIETT PATTERSON, m. JAMES M. THOMPSON. >> iv. HOUSTON PATTERSON, d. Abt. 1838, TX; m. MATILDA PATTERSON. >> v. MARTHA PATTERSON. >> vi. MIRANDA PATTERSON. >> vii. NANCY PATTERSON, m. ROBERT BRUCE. >> viii. ROBERT PATTERSON, JR. >> ix. SAMUEL PATTERSON. >> x. THOMAS PATTERSON. >> xi. PRUDENCE PATTERSON, b. October 18, 1797; d. August 28, 1856, Chapel >>Hill, Marshal (Old Bedford)l County, TN. >>Notes for PRUDENCE PATTERSON: >>Prudence is buried in the Swanson Cemetery in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. >>She apparently never married. >> >>JAMES M PATTERSON (Son of Andrew and nephew of Robert) was born April >>08, 1820 in Chapel Hill, Marshal (Old Bedford) County, TN, and died >>December 27, 1877 in Chapel Hill, Marshal (Old Bedford) County, TN. >> >>Notes for JAMES M PATTERSON: >>Buried in Swanson Cemetery, Chapel Hill, TN >> >>Robert and Andrew had a brother, James Patterson, born abt 1764, >>Lancaster County, PA, but what became of him is unknown. >> >>Joe Patterson >>Mt Juliet, TN >> > >